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It seems each of the body types share this same concern - "I'm not a casualty of life", or that they can be above the pain and suffering of just being a person, or they can turn their trauma into something else. Denying that life can affect them.

8s are the most explicit in this sense - instead of accepting their trauma, they seek to inact trauma on the world, and look for enemies to wound and friends to protect. They become aggressive, dominating and sadistic as a result.

9s are the least explicit - instead of accepting their trauma, they tune it out and pretend that things don't affect them. They become numb, stubborn, dissociated and neglectful as a result.

1s, instead of accepting their trauma, twist and turn it into what they "should" be doing, avoiding what they "shouldn't" be doing. They become rigid, critical and resentful of others who won't listen or try as hard as them.

Each of these is concerned with strength, and being "stronger" than life, or not letting life affect you or your behaviour. In the end, they all share the same path in life - to accept that they too, and their loved ones, can be victims and causalities, and sometimes there's nothing you can really "do" about any of it.

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If I let my world fall apart by succumbing to a pessimistic point of view, I certainly would be a casualty in a sense, but when I asked the world to take me to the other side, it refused.
I was willing to embrace my death with open arms, and I was denied.

There is a point in a persons life when death feels like a kindness.
When you beg for death to take you away.. and then when it doesnt, youre forced to deal with your emotions.

When youve felt that point.. where youve lost everything you worked for.. where youve failed at the one thing you wanted to accomplish in this life, and youre wandering aimless and unattached..
when nothing feels worthy except the next moment, the next meal, the next heart-ache..
because thats all you have now.. no longer do you have a future. Now you just own the moment.
and thats good enough..
within that moment.

and before you know it, youve created a life for yourself.
and thats good. thats bad. Thats.. okay. =]
and thats all the living can really ask, or expect.

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8s are the most explicit in this sense - instead of accepting their trauma, they seek to inact trauma on the world, and look for enemies to wound and friends to protect. They become aggressive, dominating and sadistic as a result.

One might intervene and interfere at every available opportunity and at every single instant, when things did not turn out as any decent and reasonable creature would like.

However, with every intervention, every interference - no matter how individually well-meant and seemingly right and proper judged purely on its own immediate merits - one would subtly, incrementally, but most assuredly remove all freedom and dignity from the very people one sought only to help.

I should be in prison.
Trigger Warning, violence, abuse.
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